Sharad Pawar's grandnephew slams Shinde govt for '2 am action' against his firm. 'Political revenge'

Mumbai:A unit of the Maharashtra government allegedly took action against Baramati Agro Limited, an agribusiness conglomerate owned and led by Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) founder Sharad Pawars grand-nephew Rohit Pawar, at 2 a.m..

However, a leader in the Sharad Pawar-led NCP, known to be close to Rohit, told ThePrint that the action was taken by the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB), which purportedly served a notice to a Baramati Agro unit to shut down in 72 hours...

Following the split in the NCP in July this year when a majority of the partys MLAs, led by Sharads nephew Ajit Pawar, rebelled against the Sharad Pawar-led NCP, to join the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Shinde-led Shiv Sena government in power in Maharashtra Rohits prominence within the Sharad Pawar camp has grown...

Mahesh Tapase, spokesperson of the Sharad Pawar-led NCP, said in a statement, however, The Shinde government is afraid of Rohit Pawar as he fervently champions the progressive and secular ideals of national leader Sharad Pawar across Maharashtra the recent actions against Rohit Pawars business are indicative of the BJPs growing concern over the declining popularity of its government...

Asreportedby ThePrint earlier, last year, BJP MLC Ram Shinde, who had lost the 2019 assembly elections from Karjat Jamkhed to Rohit, had complained to the state sugar commissioner that Baramati Agro started sugar crushing on 10 October in contravention of the state governments rules that year...

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